Helen Keller Quotes
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Quotes to Explore
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I'm used to putting so many things aside to be able to compete.
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The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
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THE ONLY STABLE THING IS MOVEMENT
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
